The Torchlight List : Around the World in 200 Books

Flynn, Jim (1934-2020)

ISBN 10: 0958291691 / ISBN 13: 9780958291699

Edité par Awa Press (2010), Wellington, 2010

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Some fading to spine. No signatures.; First printing. [10], 190 pages. Card covers with flaps. Page dimensions: 178 x 127mm. "Flynn was inspired to create this list: books so wonderful to read, and so revealing about times and places, that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and inspiration." - from blurb on rear cover. N° de réf. du vendeur 27198

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Titre : The Torchlight List : Around the World in ...

Éditeur : Awa Press (2010), Wellington

Date d'édition : 2010

Reliure : Softcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition : First Edition.

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Synopsis :

A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler's take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman's view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald's impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk's analysis of the West's history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.

À propos de l?auteur:

Jim Flynn was a world-renowned expert on intelligence and IQ and the author of What is Intelligence? and Where Have All the Liberals Gone? He was professor emeritus of politics at Otago University and a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His TED talk "Why our IQs are higher than our grandparents'" has received over 4.5 million views. Jim Flynn died in December 2020 at the age of 86.